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The Lesser Bourgeoisie

Honoré de Balzac

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .In fact, she often bemoaned herself that she couldn't be miserly. At her last dinner she had related how, after struggling ten minute and enduring martyrdom, she had ended by giving ten francs to a poor workwoman whom she knew, positively, had been without food for two days.

"Nature," she said naively, "is stronger than reason."

The soup was a rather pale bouillon; for, even on an occasion like this, the cook had been enjoined to make a great deal of bouillon out of the beef supplied. Then, as the said beef was to feed the family on the next day and the day after that, the less juice it expended in the bouillon, the more substantial were the subsequent dinners. The beef, little cooked, was always taken away at the following speech from Brigitte, uttered as soon as Thuillier put his knife into it:—

"I think it is rather tough; send it away, Thuillier, nobody will eat it; we have other things."

The soup was, in fact, flanke. . . Read More

Community Reviews

Lo peor es que el libro no esté terminado, pero desde luego que pone de manifiesto toda la hipocresía, el utilitarismo, la avaricia, el egoísmo, la corrupción y las ganas de escalar para llegar a capitalista de la sociedad.
Me parece una excelente muestra de cómo la clase burguesa fue acumulando cap

Balzac's "The Lesser Bourgeoisie" fits well into the entirety of The Human Comedy, his monumental work on the nature of human beings and their low, superficial passions. Balzac depicts middle-class characters in France in their pursuit to get rich through deceit. They are willing to do anything for

Odbijam da pročitam nastavak koji nije napisao Balzak, tako da ću samo ostati u neznanju zauvijek što se tiče Malograđana...more

Belle intrigue retorse au milieu des petits bourgeois déjà rencontrés dans le roman “Les Employés”. Malheureusement le roman est inachevé…

I didn't enjoy this as much as I thought I would from the opening. The characters felt more like puppets than usual, and too much of the back story was not revealed till near the end. Best thing: Brigitte. Balzac really had a thing about frustrated middle-aged spinsters, didn't he? Worst thing: the

This was a wonderful book: witty, funny - and sophisticated. I kept being amazed that it was written almost 200 years ago. It's a cliche, but his insight is still modern

This was a wonderful book: witty, funny and sophisticated. I kept being amazed that it was written almost 200 years ago. It's a cli

Here is a late Balzac novel that, until recently, I didn't even know existed. It tells of the attempts made by a young attorney named Theodose de la Peyrade to worm himself into the good graces of a nouveau riche Paris family, the Thuilliers. As his reward he aims for the hand of the lucky heir of t

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